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THOMPSOfTVII^,. CONNBCtlCDT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1918.
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Single Copy 5 Cents. y^iZ£- • VOL. XXXIX, No. 16
Priv. Horace J. Tanguay and Corp. Albert V.
Poole Killed in Action; Priv. Victor W
Wysocki .and Corp. Thaddeus Blaze-jowski
Seriously Wounded; Priv.
F; Paul Mangino Missing.
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PRIV. HORACE J. TANGUAY.
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: : Mr. and Mrs. Edriiorid Tanguay
•of Enfield street-received word last
; Thursday evening from the War De-
;; partment that their son, Private
Horace J. Tanguay, 28 years old, a
. member of I Co. 102d Inf., was
' . ... Wiled in action July 22. Private
Tanguay enlisted in Thompsonville
during recruiting week in June,
1917, and before going overseas last
September trained at Yale Field,
New Haven.
IHe was gassed in an engagement
early in the spring and was in a
-hospital for five weeks. Later he
in action; Corporal Thaddeus Blaze-jo
wski' was severely wounded in ac­tion
July 23 and that Private Paul
Mangino was missing in action.
Corporal Poole enlisted in the 71st
New York Regiment soon after the
United States entered the war. 'He
went to the border and upon his re­turn
was transferred to the 69th at
Camp Mills, Hempstead, L. I. He was
again transferred to the 165 th U. S.
Infantry and went to France in
August 1917.. Corporal Poole was
a native of Thompsonville- but had
lived in New York, for the past few
year's. Besides his parents he leaves
one sister, Inez and a brother, Alfred.
; was wounded slightly by sharpnel, a • Ofj' -35'k:
fragment striking him over one eye. MEMORIAL .-SERVICE FOR
He was a member of Washington. .... :.99Rl>* AIjBERT V. POOLE
Irving Council Knights of Colum-
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bus, the Father Mathew Temperance
Society, Holy Name Society and the
Carpenters Union. -
Besides his parents he* leaves
eight brothers and two sisters. Four
of the former are in the service and
a' fifth is about to enter the
navy. Philip and Roland are in
France, Edgar, formerly a Spring-field
policeman, is in training in
New York and Eugene is awaiting a
call for the naval reserve. Allen
is employed in a shipyard. The
other children are Aimee, almost
ready to join the colors, and- Ar- ' ft- mand and Adolph, both too young
to plan on a military career. The
K; sisters are Deloro and Marie.
? vy-;j v A requim mass . was celebrated in
. ' >•> St.. Patrick's Church Monday morn-sV'.
ing by the pastor, Rev. Thomas J.
Preston, in memory of Private Tail?
:v.;' k- guay. The service was a very im:
l>ressive one and was attended by a
large delegation fof members from
Washington Irving Council, Knights
<jf Columbus and the Holy Name so­ciety
of St. Patrick's Church, as well
as manjv relatives and friends. Dur­ing
the service Miss Eleanor. Sullivan
sang "Some Sweet Day."
••kvv. An empty coffin was placed at the
foot of the altar, and it was en­shrouded
with an American flag and
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the flag on the staff in St. Joseph'3
parochial school yard hung at half
mast durhig the day.
The eulogy was delivered by Rev.
' C Thomas J. Preston, who spoke on
the bravery-oC Uu vast army o!
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young Ame-lcan boys who are dailv
giving their lives to bring about a
. world peace and he also spoke of
the good Christian life the young
I man had always lived.
Private Tanguay was the first ,En-fleld
man to make the supreme sac-
5 rlfice for his country.
CORP. ALBERT V. POOLE.
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: Official notice was received from
the war department at Washington
on Monday evening that Corporal
Albert V. . Poole of Thompsonville
died August 4 from wounds received
A memorial service' will be held
in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
next Sunday morning at 10.30 o'clock
for Corporal Albert V. Poole, who
died August 4 from wounds received,
in action in France. Rev. D. Russ
Judd, the rector, will officiate. All
are invited to attend.
UN ARMY
Raymond Dr CFosdick, chairman of
the Commission of Training Camp
Activities1 of the War ,Department.
Washington, made the following
statement, as published in the New
York Times on August 4, 1918:
"The four organizations recog­nized
by the War Department and
authorizedto do Camp Welfare Work
in France are the Red Cross, the Y.
M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus
and the Salvation Army. Somewhat
to my surprise I found The Salva­tion
Army probably the most popu­lar
organization in France with the
troops. It has not undertaken the
comprehensive program which the
Y. M. C. A. has laid out for itself.
That is, it is operating only in three
or four divisions, while the Y. M. C.
A; 'is aiming jto cover every unit of
troops. But its simple, homely, un­adorned
service seems to hhve touch­ed
the hearts of our men. The aim
of the organization is, if possible,
to put a worker and his wife in a
canteen or a center. The woman
spends her time making doughnuts
pr pies and sews on buttons. The
man makes himself generally useful
in any way in which his service can
be applied. I saw such places in
dugouts way up at the. front,where
the German shells screamed over
our heads witlua sound not unlike
a freight train crossing a bridge.
Down in their dugouts the ^Salvation
Army folks imperturbably handed
out doughnuts and dished out the
drinks."
MECHANICS LEFT THIS MORNING
PK1V. VICTOR W. WYSOCKI.
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Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wysocki. of
Shaker Station received word from
the war department Sunday night
that their son, Private Victor Walter
Wysocki, 28, of C Co., 102nd Inf.,
was wounded severely in action July
23. He was born in Stevens Point,
Wis., .Jan. IS, 1S90, but has lived
here since he was a small boy. He
was employed as a farmer in En­field
when he enlisted during re­cruiting
week in June, 1917. He is
the oldest of several children. s
CORP. THADDEUS JLLAZE.JOWSKL
. Corporal Thaddeus Blazeiiowski
was. a member o£ Co.--G. 102d Regi­ment
and enlisted . during recruiting
week in June 1917. He was pre­viously
wounded in battle, a report
having been received by relatives
last March that he was wounded in
action February 18. After a short
Stay at the base hospital he recover­ed
and went back to the trenches.
Corporal Blaze jo wslti is a native of
Meriden where his father lives. Be­fore
entering the 'service lie was
employed as clerk jn the dry goods
store of Anthony Jav.orslci on Pleas­ant
street, being a relative of Mrs.
Javorski.
William A Mills, oldest son of
Mrs. 'Nellie C. Mills, and Willard R.
Young, son of Mrs. James Young,
and Lewis -6. Graham of Suffield,
Seth R. Hall of Simsbury and David
E. Carlson of North Gran'by left this
morning on the 11.56 train for New­ton,
Mass., to take a course in me­chanical
training, after which they
will be assigned to some department
in the army service.
Many relatives and friends were
on hand to bid them farewell, and
the young men received many gifts
from friends and relatives which
they will find useful in army life. .
BET HI END
REGISTRATION DAY AUGUST 24
PRIV. 1'AUIj MAXGIXO.
Private Paul Mangino of 14S
Pleasant street enlisted in the in­fantry
of a New York regiment. Ilis
stepmother and brother Guisseppe
Mangino live in this village. His
name does not appear on the records
of the draft board for Division 3 of
Hartford County, neither is it listed
in Enfield's Honor Roll.
-Men lleconiiug 21 Since June 5 Lust
Must Enrol Week From Next
Saturday.
Registration day on Saturday,
August 24, of all youths who have
reached the age of 21 since-, the sec­ond
registration last June 5 was or­dered
yesterday by Provost Marshal
General Crowder, under a proclama­tion
by the President. The purpose
is to add quickly to the almost ex­hausted
Class 1 to meet army draft
calls in September. : •
About 150,000 young men will
register. Most of them will qualify
for Class 1, and therefore will join
the army probably within a month
after their names are recorded.
TWO POJggDS OF SUGAR—NO
MATTElS*$VHAT KIND OR FOR
WHAT USE—IS EVERY-
||g BODY'S MONTHLY LIMIT
After making a careful survey of
the world sugar shortage situation
the United States Food Administra­tion
hks asked the American public
to use no~more than two pounds of
sugar per person- (half a pound a
week)serve .for all sugar uses in the
household, including cooking and all
sugar served at the table.
Since requesting the American
public to confine the consumption of
sugar in the home to two pounds
per person per month, the United
States Food Administration has been
frequently asked what sort of sugar
is included by this two pound regu­lation.
All cane and beet sugars are in­cluded—
granulated sugar, cube su­gar,
powdered sugar, and all refined
grades. V Moreover, this two pound
restriction ihcludes- all raw sugars,
brown sugars and refiners' soft su­gars.
At the present time maple sugars
are not included.
We must I conserve sugar now:
To equalize more nearly the sup­plies
of all jvho sit at a common ta­ble—
that the people of England may
have two pbunds per person per
month, the., people of France 1%
pounds per' person per month, the
people ofj-Italy 1 pound per person
per month.
To meet the Allied shortage. • -
To release ships formerly used in
the sugar trade to carry soldiers and
supplies to Europe.
To make up the loss of beet sugar
lands. and factories captured or de­stroyed
by the Germans in northern
France and Italy.
Ships which would have kept up
the flow of sugar have been sunk.
Twenty-six thousand tons of sugar
were lost ., recently in submarine
raids upon our Atlantic coast.. Fifty
thousand tons of sugar-carrying
shipping were transferred to meet
the requirements of Belgian relief.
The- U. S. Food Administration
is confident that the American pub
lie will heartily agree to reduce
household use of sugar here to a
level more nearly equal to the pres­ent
restrictions among the Allied
nations. , •
AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM
fga, ; CLIFFORD MERRILL. V- l£.v.
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SPORTING NOTES
OLD-TIMERS TO STAGE
COME RACK NEXT SUNDAY
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IX AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
.' In what promises to be one of the
fastest and most interesting ball
gj'.mea o£_ the season will take place
next Sunday afternoon on the Alden
avenue grounds when (he Pow Wow
A. C., who recently captured the
amateur championship of the town,
v. ill have as their opponents the so-called
Old-Time'rs, composed of men
\.ha formerly played with the Brus­sels
and AH-Thompsonvilles in years
gone by. Among the-Old-Timers who
will appear in uniform, are Jim Ash.
George Finch, Homer Chaine, W.
Chaine, Larry Keeler who played the
early part of this season with the
Hog Island shipTyard team, Charlie
Allen- Billie Allen, Ray Purdy, Bert
Young, Bert Taylor, Phil Clarkin
and Joe Colligan. The Old-Timers
have secured the use of the Brussels
A. C. uniforms and also permission
to have the grandstand open for the
occasion.
>For^ the Old-Timere either H.
Chaine' or Charlie Allen will pitch
and W. Chaine or Joe Colligan will
catch. The Pow Wows will use their
regular line-up and O'Brien and
Slamou will be the battery. The
game will start at 3, o'clock sharp.
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AUTOMOBILE FIRE PUMP
DEMONSTRATED.
P. G. Howe,of New Jersey gave a
•demonstration of a Howe-Ford au-tomobile
.fire pump last evening be­fore
the district committee, repre­sented
by-_JFire .„Chief„ WilliamJL-Hines
and Philip J. Sullivan. The
truck ran up alongside certain build­ings
and streams of water were
'throim up instantaneously, and near
tr, JJ. Freshwater pond a demonstration of
- the carrying capacity of the appara-
- tus vraB given.
~ The engine -was being driven to
' Northboro, -Mass, where it is to be'
A serious automobile acciden,t oc-curred
in Hazardville late yesterday
afternoon when a Ford cabriolet
owned by Fred Althen of the Thomp-sonyille
Drug Company overturned
in front of the residence of Howard
l>. Gordon in that place. Joseph
M. Devine, a member of the Thomp­sonville
Drug Company and Osborn
Pouehot of Thompsonville were in
the automobile.
They were returning from Pine
Point Grove and Pouehot who was
driving made the corner from Main
street, Hazardville, into Fairlawn
avenue, but kept too close to the
right hand side of the road. When
he turned sharply to the left to get
into the center of the road the car
turned over and pinned Devine's
hand under the door.
The young men were brought to
Thompsonville in the automobile of
Fred Root of Hazardville. The phy­sicians
who attended Mr. Devine
found it necessary to amputate all
of the second finger and .hilf of the
third on his right hand. Pouehot
escaped with minor injuries about
the knee.
When the accident occurred the
car was going at a very moderate
rate of speed, it is alleged. The
mud guard and fenders on the car
were-damaged.
Enlists in Naval Reserves.
Lendon F. Dutton, oldest son of
Mrs. F. O. Dutton of Washington
avenue, has enlisted in the naval
reserves and will report Slonday at
the naval base in New London. He
enters the service with the rank, of
second class electrician. He was
formerly employed as an electrician
by the Northern Connecticut Light
& Power Company.
HARRIS - GANN" 1011.
A marriage of local interest took
place last evening when Miss Mildred
E. Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph II. Harris of Prospect street
became the wife of Private George
Ganner of Camp Devens, formerly oi'
this village. The ceremony was per­formed
by Rev. D. Russ Judd, rec­tor
of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
They were unattended. Immediate­ly
after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs.
Ganher left for a wedding trip to
Corona, L. I., Private Ganner having
a 'five days furlough from military
duties.
Both are popular young people of
the town. Mr. Ganner before en­tering
the service being employed in
the Standard Metalworlc Company
and Mrs. Ganner as stenographer in
the shipping department of the Big-elow-
Hartford Carpet Corporation.
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(France; July 19.
Dear Mother:"'-®
Here I am in France, feeling bet­ter
than ever. I have traveled five
thousand miles, I guess, since 1 left.
This makes the third camp I have
been in in Europe. Just seven weeks
in service and in five different camps.
That is going some. I think we
will stay here for a while. This
seems to be the best camp so far
over here. There is plenty of water
and that is very important.
We had lots of sport figuring
change in England when we bought
anything, and I suppose we will have
more here. The people in England
almost went wild over us when we
landed. There was only about as
many of us? as the Home Guard,
"you know." I would like to tell you
just how many there were.
Everything is going fine. All that
bothers me is I am afraid the war
will end before I get into it, the way
things are going now.
I have not seen Hap. yet; but
guess I will meet him when all the
76th Division get together here in
France. Now don't worry, for I
will take good care of myself, and
it will be some time before I see any
fighting, so cheer up and forget it.
1 had a pile of fun coming over,
and was never happier in my life
as when a thousand miles out in the
ocean. Some of the fellows lost
all they ever had, but it did not
bother me a bit, only one night I
had to go on watch in what they
called a danger zone. It was very
rough. 1 was only supposed to stay
on two hours, but the corporal for­got
me and left me on almost four.
I was getting awful dizzy, but just
then he came and relieved me. An
Englishman who was serving the
food on board said "You Ameri­cans
eat more than horses; possibly
fair fighters."
Uncle Sam is showing them what
possibly fair fighters they are. We
met a train of English soldiers com:
ing back from the front. They said
to us, "Go back home, boys, we
wont need you now; the war will
be over soon." They bet two to one
it will be over in September.
Tell Will to listen, and if lie hears
me give one of those war whoops of
mine, he. Avill know 1 have got the
Kaiser !
With love, from your sonr
Private Clifford T. Merrill.
Co. F, 302d Inf., A. E. F.
American P. O. 705.
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Yesterday afternoon shortly after
r> o'clock a severe electrical and wind
storm passed over this villiage which
caused considerable damage to tele­phone
and trollv wires. Half of a
large tree in front of the First Pres­byterian
Church was blown off and
in falling carried witli it the trolly
wires and one of the trolly poles,
delaying traffic for a couple of hours.
A pole on Elm street also was car­ried
over by the gale and in the mid­dle
road to Hazardville a large limb
was blown off a tree in front of
Richard Smyth's dwelling.
The tobacco crops in this vicinity
gscaped damage, but in Massachu­setts
and other near by places the
loss to the tobacco crops will amount
to several thousand dollars.
THOMPSONVILLE TO SEND 9.
£.">0 Limited Service Men to (Jo to
Camp Upton on August. 30
SELECTMEN MAKE APPOINT­MENTS.
ARREST HD FOR THEFT OF COAL
In the town court Monday morn­ing,
Antonio Tina was charged with
the theft of coal to the value of 25
cents from the plant of the Bigelow-
^Jartford Carpet Corporation Sunday
night... Tina was arrested by Special
officer James Everett, who was
watching the company's coal deposits
because of alleged thefts recently
committed there. He pleaded guilty
and a fine o.f $5 and costs was im-posed
by Judge Burke, but as Tina
has a large family to support- he was
.put under suspended sentence- for
six . months by , the Judge. „,
siiiili-*.
Leroy L. Day of Enfield street
has been appointed by the board ot
selectmen to succeed the late "V^r-ren
B. Johnson as a member of the
Enfield Library Board. Philip J.
Sullivan has been appointed a mem­ber
of the auditing board to fill the
place left vacant by Michael Higgins
who entered the service and is now
in France.
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Resigns Position as Brewery Repre­sentative
to Accept One ivith
Income Tax Department.
Former representative Michael J.
Connor, who lias been district and
sales manager for the Christian
Feigenspan Brewery company of
Hartford and all northern Connecti­cut
districts for the past nine years
has resigned his position to take a
government position in the Hartford
division department of the income
tax, and all other detail in connec­tion
with revenue... tax matter/ .
Tho local'draft board lias received
notice that Connecticut is required
to send 2">0' Class 1 men, accepted
for limited military service, to Camp
Upton, NewVYork, during the two-day
period beginning August l'>0.
Only whiteunen will he accepted for
this call. The allotment for Thonii>
sonville will be 9.
MiCKIE SAYS
4NOTHER DEPARTURE
NEAR.
DAY
Seventy Selected Men Will Leave
August 30 for General Military
Service.
Oil August 30th one of the largest
quotas of selected men yet to be sent
irom this district to any camp, will
leave Thompsonville. Under orders
issued at Hartford this week by Adj.
General George M. Cole, the local
board will furnish 70 men from
Class 1, qualified for general mili­tary
service. Connecticut's quota
for this call is 2,500 men, which will
use up all the general service men
left under the 1917 registration.
j.'WVKll SIS1TZKV FINALLY
ACCEPTED.
A KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COX-l^
VmSTKON IN NEW YORK
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New York, August 7.
They were strangers in New York,
which explains how they happeuec
to wander into Seventh avenue and
Forty-third street, when they, really
wanted to continue their wol".; c.&£h
Broadway. Mrs. E. Gil>ca;;.',' "ijn:
her grown daughter, Mistf iV'r.rv; r..
Ronceverte, W. Va., of coui :;.', uidii''.
know that Broadway at Foriy-tliiri
street was intersected by-' Seventh
Avenue, and that's how it happened.
Mother and daughter were not
watching street signs closely any­how,
because they were looking for
John J. Gilhooly, son and brother,
who, in a soldier's uniform, was
somewhere in the East. And being
in the East, he would, of course, be
in Broadway—at least it was very
natural that he should. At any rate,
his was the deduction of mother
nd daughter as they talked it over
n their little home on a farm near
Ronceverte, W. Va.
So they came to New York to !in l
John.
Up and down the streets they
walked yesterday afternoon peering
closely into the face of every soldier
they met—but John didn't appear.
In Seventh avenue last night they
met a policeman and i^sked him if
he had seen John.
"I'm sure that 1 didn't; tell me
bout him" lie replied.
They did, and the story revealed
that all they knew about John was
tnat he had been transferred from
a camp in the Southwest to "some
place on the East Atlantic coast"—
and they had come to New York to
find him. That's all.
"Well, mother, we'll find him for
you- if he is on the Atlantic coast—
or any other coast for that matter,"
was tile cop's answer.
John T. Cavanaugh, a Knights of
(Columbus Secretary passed just at
hat moment. 'And he was in uni-orm
too, or perhaps this story
would never have been written.
Then spoke the kindly cop, who
had pledged New York's word to the
anxious mother and her daughter
that' the man they sought would be
found. He addressed himself to
Cavanaugh:
"Maybe you can help this mother
find her son—a soldier?"
"1 can, and certainly will. The
Knights have a Lost Soldiers' De­partment
for just sucn cases."
A..taxicab quickly conveyed the
parly to the Ivuights of Columbus
headquarters at No. *61 Fourth ave­nue,
where Frank J. Maloney is in
charge of the Lost Soldiers' Depart­ment.
Through him, John was
quickly located at Camp Upton and
today at the Knights of Columbus
headquarters there John Gilhooly
Private, S. A. will meet his mother.
Mrs. E. J. Gilhooly and his sister
Mary of Ronceverte, W. Va.
The meeting was arranged over
the telephone last night and John
was at the Camp Upton end of the
wire.
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Lawyer Samuel Sisitzky has been
.ccepted for service in the enlisted
irdnance corps of tho National Army
or duty at Cam]) Hancock, Augusta.
Ga. Mr. Sisitzky will report Am jr.
£<H!i at Camp Hancock, wl'.ere
will -..aise a two months traniu.g
•'•i;r.se 'tefore goi;ig oversea-.-;
He is a graduate of the Eu-ield
High school, attended Boston
Tniversity for two years. He holds
ha degree of bachelor of laws from
>eorge Washington University,
iVashington, and a degree of master
f laws, Yale Law School, class of
lO kG. Lawyer Sisitzky has been en­gaged
in the practice of law for twe
years, having offices in Springfield
and this place.
Last Sunday evening Mrs. Joseph
Angelica- and daughters Lucy and
Lily of Tariff St., were injured when
they were run down by an autorao
bile owned and operated by. James
K. Kneeland of 09 Sergeant street
Spr'Tigfield, near Grape Bro.vc ]-]r-tie'ii
street. Mrs. Angelica received
a scalp wound which required 14
stitches to close and her two daugh­ters
received minor injuries consist­ing
of cuts and bruises about the
body.
Kneeland was given a hearing in
the local court. Monday morning, and
in order to enable more complete in­vestigation
and also to await .the
outcome of r'sj injuries sustained by
"5. Joseph An gel if aaiuid ai'-sl'-
ters, ;!;e case was continued n nil
Veonesday morning under §10 0
bonds.
from -Private Herbert A.-Js
Marks to His Mother. Kf rj:
gpg (Postmarked July 5.) •V#;
D e a r M a : ' • •
Received your letter and also post :¥*••
card. Gee, it is good to hear from o''-,
home after waiting so long. By now ;
you must have a few of ray letters. "
Have been writing without waiting
for iu-siver, knowing Ilia; the mails frfe?
are very slow i oiag irom here. So Sr. -
you ma.' t ; y. ju d j the same. Write
at lear-. once a week, and if you
don't hear from me right away re­member
that the mail is delayed, for
I am writing regularly. -Ml
Well, Ma, I am sorry you were di^ -• a :
appointed in not being able to send . • ri..
me anything. At the time I wrote I v - fe - A
was broke and all out of tobacco, S
not knowing about not being allow-ed
to receive packages I wrote and fe#
asked you to send chocolate and to- f||
bacco; things J most needed. It is iV
O. K. now. I have everything in
that line and plenty. The commis- £
sary also issues three sacks
week per man. In fact, things are §1|§
improving rapidly and I think before
the war is over we will be able to
get almost anything we want. Don't f|f|
think Uncle ;Sam is too hard on us |!|||
by not allowing our relatives to send 'MH
things; ships are not so plentiful and
of course the few we have are pretty
well used up to carry the things that
are most essential. The Y. M. C. A.
is doing great work in keeping us
supplied with chocolate, tobacco, etc.
at very reasonable prices. So, Ma,
don't worry about sending anything.
Send The Press, and I would like a
post card view of Thompsonville oc­casionally.
We have some great entertain­ments
at the Y. M. C. A. most every
night, and movies. This , National
Army is made up of men from every
branch of life you can imagine, and
naturally a few actors are among the
rest. Life is a regular graft ove'.-
liere outside of a little training. We
are all fat and healthy. Of course, :
as usual, I have a very easy time of
it. Have been going to radio school
and may some day be a wireless op-erator.
It takes quite a bit of prac- §jf|'
tice but I guess I will get there. Ar- §||p r.^v
tillery is about as nice a branch of
service as a fellow could be in, and -7.'$
bis chances are very good of getting
back sound and healthy. I haven't S'S;
anything to do with the guns. On
Sundays we all have to groom and
water horses. We call it Sundav on :lf& i
the farm.
Gee, the Italians are sure handing :
it to-the Austrians and I think we
will see Austria make peace at any
terms this summer. Somehow I feci
the war will be over before the year
is past, and a whole lot of others
feel the same. Our soldiers at the
front are doing great work. At tiie
rate the U. S. is getting more over
we will soon be able to do the job
alone. Cheer up. Ma. 1 will be back
in the old town again inside of a
year just as good as ever.
Remember me to all my friends
and tell them 1 am getting fat and
lazy. I am also gaining a little hair
on my upper lip. Glad to Know the
allotment, has started coming. It .v^S ^
may be a little while before you hear
from the insurance. They are a
little slow on accouut of so many "
other tilings, but policy or not it is yfjE
good, just the same ''"xm*
I read about the U-boats off the ~?j|| j
U. S. coast. It is only a bluff on '
Germany's part, but don't go. We " ^v"3§i
are wise.
Well, Ma. I want you to tell me -"'-331
all about what is going on in the
family in your letters. How art you ;'.'^S
and Pa getting along alone. I sup-pose
it is lonesome without .Bill and
Florence. In summer jt hadn't ^
ought to be so bad. Has Bill's
brother Stewart come over yet?
Well, I can think of nothing
more just now, so give my love and
best wishes to the family. '
Love, from , -.i
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President in Theatre When Soldier-
Author Slurred Drafted Men.
Arthur Guy Empey, soldier, author,
lost his chance for a commission in
the United States army by a fiery
curtain speech on the stage of the
National Theatre in Washington
Monday. He >was appearing in a
new play, "Pack Up Your Troubles."
President Wilson was present.
The real heroes of the war, Empey
declared in effect, were the volun­teers
who went over in the first
place, and-not the drafted men who
are fighting now only because they
were compelled to do so. Empey
ended 'With a flourish, but the ex­pected
applause did not follow.
. While the commission had been
recommended, it had not beeu signed
and delivered, and three days later
came the announcement that there
had been a "mistake" in connection
with the granting of a captaincy to
the former sergeant.
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Corporal Raymond E. Blackburn,
who is stationed at Camp Upton, N.
Y., passed the week-end with his
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred L.
Blackburn.
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X<; FAMILY REUNION.
At the home of Mrs. O. E. Miller
on Enfield street last Saturday even­ing,
a pleasant reunion was held of
the Daniel L. King family. About
34 were present, including repre­sentatives
from the Chapin and Hay-den
families of Springfield, Pickens
family of Wilbraham and Thompson­ville,
King family of Suffield, Phelps
family of Enfield and Mrs. Elmer
Baker of Springfield, Miss Thomasine
Rook of Thompsonville and the
Misses Frances and Marino Hartley
of Enfield street. *
The members gathered to meet and
greet Wyllis L. Phelps, formerly of
Enfield, who is a civil engineer for
the Pennsylvania Railroad and is lo­cated
at Columbus, O. Mr. Phelps'
family have been spending several
weeks in Enfield. Supper was serv­ed
from 5 to 6 o'clock on the lawn,
after which a social time was en­joyed.
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Experienced tobacco handlers
working on farms in this vicinity
are receiving as high as $7 a day
No one needs to be idle with that
money being offered.
P. S.—Received a card, from Stan-''v$S|ji§8
ton. He says there is a letter on 'i:
itlie way. Is lawyer Mulligan in ^
'the army? ' Tell Art I wish him luck; he ought to be in the army, '•i
though. I know at least ten young ••
lawyers here and most of them are
privates. Au Revoir. Write often, aJ-; UK •
mail gets here quicker than it gets
there.
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The young man who wants a job
with a growing and successful con­cern
is respectfully referred to the
American army and navy.
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AUTOS CRASH
IN ENFIELD STREET IW
Thomas Greenwood of Springfield,
was arrested Sunday night by the
police as the result of an automobile ^gtfti
accident on Enfield street in which
three automobiles were involved.
Greenwood was arraigned before the
town court Monday morning charged , Vi-%!
with speeding. He was fined $25.00
and costs, amounting to $38.82,
which he paid.
The other machines in the acci-dent
were driven by Howard L. Bit-ter,
superintendent of G. F. Heub-lein
& Co., of Hartford, whose home
address is 45 Deerfield avenue, that 5f||
city, and Albert Fetteral, who gave
his address as Stratford Hotel, i|||j
Springfield. Bitter was driving south |||| ;
and Fetteral was headed north when J||& /i
the accident happened. Greenwood,
who was going at a. high rate of
speed, came out of Elm street on to
Enfield street and in order to avoid
hitting his car Fetteral swung to 1
the left and in doing so collided .
with the car of Mr. Bitter, both cars
being considerably damaged. Green- ,
wood's car was not damaged. '\V;r
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Priv. Horace J. Tanguay and Corp. Albert V.
Poole Killed in Action; Priv. Victor W
Wysocki .and Corp. Thaddeus Blaze-jowski
Seriously Wounded; Priv.
F; Paul Mangino Missing.
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PRIV. HORACE J. TANGUAY.
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: : Mr. and Mrs. Edriiorid Tanguay
•of Enfield street-received word last
; Thursday evening from the War De-
;; partment that their son, Private
Horace J. Tanguay, 28 years old, a
. member of I Co. 102d Inf., was
' . ... Wiled in action July 22. Private
Tanguay enlisted in Thompsonville
during recruiting week in June,
1917, and before going overseas last
September trained at Yale Field,
New Haven.
IHe was gassed in an engagement
early in the spring and was in a
-hospital for five weeks. Later he
in action; Corporal Thaddeus Blaze-jo
wski' was severely wounded in ac­tion
July 23 and that Private Paul
Mangino was missing in action.
Corporal Poole enlisted in the 71st
New York Regiment soon after the
United States entered the war. 'He
went to the border and upon his re­turn
was transferred to the 69th at
Camp Mills, Hempstead, L. I. He was
again transferred to the 165 th U. S.
Infantry and went to France in
August 1917.. Corporal Poole was
a native of Thompsonville- but had
lived in New York, for the past few
year's. Besides his parents he leaves
one sister, Inez and a brother, Alfred.
; was wounded slightly by sharpnel, a • Ofj' -35'k:
fragment striking him over one eye. MEMORIAL .-SERVICE FOR
He was a member of Washington. .... :.99Rl>* AIjBERT V. POOLE
Irving Council Knights of Colum-
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bus, the Father Mathew Temperance
Society, Holy Name Society and the
Carpenters Union. -
Besides his parents he* leaves
eight brothers and two sisters. Four
of the former are in the service and
a' fifth is about to enter the
navy. Philip and Roland are in
France, Edgar, formerly a Spring-field
policeman, is in training in
New York and Eugene is awaiting a
call for the naval reserve. Allen
is employed in a shipyard. The
other children are Aimee, almost
ready to join the colors, and- Ar- ' ft- mand and Adolph, both too young
to plan on a military career. The
K; sisters are Deloro and Marie.
? vy-;j v A requim mass . was celebrated in
. ' >•> St.. Patrick's Church Monday morn-sV'.
ing by the pastor, Rev. Thomas J.
Preston, in memory of Private Tail?
:v.;' k- guay. The service was a very im:
l>ressive one and was attended by a
large delegation fof members from
Washington Irving Council, Knights
For^ the Old-Timere either H.
Chaine' or Charlie Allen will pitch
and W. Chaine or Joe Colligan will
catch. The Pow Wows will use their
regular line-up and O'Brien and
Slamou will be the battery. The
game will start at 3, o'clock sharp.
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AUTOMOBILE FIRE PUMP
DEMONSTRATED.
P. G. Howe,of New Jersey gave a
•demonstration of a Howe-Ford au-tomobile
.fire pump last evening be­fore
the district committee, repre­sented
by-_JFire .„Chief„ WilliamJL-Hines
and Philip J. Sullivan. The
truck ran up alongside certain build­ings
and streams of water were
'throim up instantaneously, and near
tr, JJ. Freshwater pond a demonstration of
- the carrying capacity of the appara-
- tus vraB given.
~ The engine -was being driven to
' Northboro, -Mass, where it is to be'
A serious automobile acciden,t oc-curred
in Hazardville late yesterday
afternoon when a Ford cabriolet
owned by Fred Althen of the Thomp-sonyille
Drug Company overturned
in front of the residence of Howard
l>. Gordon in that place. Joseph
M. Devine, a member of the Thomp­sonville
Drug Company and Osborn
Pouehot of Thompsonville were in
the automobile.
They were returning from Pine
Point Grove and Pouehot who was
driving made the corner from Main
street, Hazardville, into Fairlawn
avenue, but kept too close to the
right hand side of the road. When
he turned sharply to the left to get
into the center of the road the car
turned over and pinned Devine's
hand under the door.
The young men were brought to
Thompsonville in the automobile of
Fred Root of Hazardville. The phy­sicians
who attended Mr. Devine
found it necessary to amputate all
of the second finger and .hilf of the
third on his right hand. Pouehot
escaped with minor injuries about
the knee.
When the accident occurred the
car was going at a very moderate
rate of speed, it is alleged. The
mud guard and fenders on the car
were-damaged.
Enlists in Naval Reserves.
Lendon F. Dutton, oldest son of
Mrs. F. O. Dutton of Washington
avenue, has enlisted in the naval
reserves and will report Slonday at
the naval base in New London. He
enters the service with the rank, of
second class electrician. He was
formerly employed as an electrician
by the Northern Connecticut Light
& Power Company.
HARRIS - GANN" 1011.
A marriage of local interest took
place last evening when Miss Mildred
E. Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph II. Harris of Prospect street
became the wife of Private George
Ganner of Camp Devens, formerly oi'
this village. The ceremony was per­formed
by Rev. D. Russ Judd, rec­tor
of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
They were unattended. Immediate­ly
after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs.
Ganher left for a wedding trip to
Corona, L. I., Private Ganner having
a 'five days furlough from military
duties.
Both are popular young people of
the town. Mr. Ganner before en­tering
the service being employed in
the Standard Metalworlc Company
and Mrs. Ganner as stenographer in
the shipping department of the Big-elow-
Hartford Carpet Corporation.
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(France; July 19.
Dear Mother:"'-®
Here I am in France, feeling bet­ter
than ever. I have traveled five
thousand miles, I guess, since 1 left.
This makes the third camp I have
been in in Europe. Just seven weeks
in service and in five different camps.
That is going some. I think we
will stay here for a while. This
seems to be the best camp so far
over here. There is plenty of water
and that is very important.
We had lots of sport figuring
change in England when we bought
anything, and I suppose we will have
more here. The people in England
almost went wild over us when we
landed. There was only about as
many of us? as the Home Guard,
"you know." I would like to tell you
just how many there were.
Everything is going fine. All that
bothers me is I am afraid the war
will end before I get into it, the way
things are going now.
I have not seen Hap. yet; but
guess I will meet him when all the
76th Division get together here in
France. Now don't worry, for I
will take good care of myself, and
it will be some time before I see any
fighting, so cheer up and forget it.
1 had a pile of fun coming over,
and was never happier in my life
as when a thousand miles out in the
ocean. Some of the fellows lost
all they ever had, but it did not
bother me a bit, only one night I
had to go on watch in what they
called a danger zone. It was very
rough. 1 was only supposed to stay
on two hours, but the corporal for­got
me and left me on almost four.
I was getting awful dizzy, but just
then he came and relieved me. An
Englishman who was serving the
food on board said "You Ameri­cans
eat more than horses; possibly
fair fighters."
Uncle Sam is showing them what
possibly fair fighters they are. We
met a train of English soldiers com:
ing back from the front. They said
to us, "Go back home, boys, we
wont need you now; the war will
be over soon." They bet two to one
it will be over in September.
Tell Will to listen, and if lie hears
me give one of those war whoops of
mine, he. Avill know 1 have got the
Kaiser !
With love, from your sonr
Private Clifford T. Merrill.
Co. F, 302d Inf., A. E. F.
American P. O. 705.
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Yesterday afternoon shortly after
r> o'clock a severe electrical and wind
storm passed over this villiage which
caused considerable damage to tele­phone
and trollv wires. Half of a
large tree in front of the First Pres­byterian
Church was blown off and
in falling carried witli it the trolly
wires and one of the trolly poles,
delaying traffic for a couple of hours.
A pole on Elm street also was car­ried
over by the gale and in the mid­dle
road to Hazardville a large limb
was blown off a tree in front of
Richard Smyth's dwelling.
The tobacco crops in this vicinity
gscaped damage, but in Massachu­setts
and other near by places the
loss to the tobacco crops will amount
to several thousand dollars.
THOMPSONVILLE TO SEND 9.
£.">0 Limited Service Men to (Jo to
Camp Upton on August. 30
SELECTMEN MAKE APPOINT­MENTS.
ARREST HD FOR THEFT OF COAL
In the town court Monday morn­ing,
Antonio Tina was charged with
the theft of coal to the value of 25
cents from the plant of the Bigelow-
^Jartford Carpet Corporation Sunday
night... Tina was arrested by Special
officer James Everett, who was
watching the company's coal deposits
because of alleged thefts recently
committed there. He pleaded guilty
and a fine o.f $5 and costs was im-posed
by Judge Burke, but as Tina
has a large family to support- he was
.put under suspended sentence- for
six . months by , the Judge. „,
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Leroy L. Day of Enfield street
has been appointed by the board ot
selectmen to succeed the late "V^r-ren
B. Johnson as a member of the
Enfield Library Board. Philip J.
Sullivan has been appointed a mem­ber
of the auditing board to fill the
place left vacant by Michael Higgins
who entered the service and is now
in France.
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Resigns Position as Brewery Repre­sentative
to Accept One ivith
Income Tax Department.
Former representative Michael J.
Connor, who lias been district and
sales manager for the Christian
Feigenspan Brewery company of
Hartford and all northern Connecti­cut
districts for the past nine years
has resigned his position to take a
government position in the Hartford
division department of the income
tax, and all other detail in connec­tion
with revenue... tax matter/ .
Tho local'draft board lias received
notice that Connecticut is required
to send 2">0' Class 1 men, accepted
for limited military service, to Camp
Upton, NewVYork, during the two-day
period beginning August l'>0.
Only whiteunen will he accepted for
this call. The allotment for Thonii>
sonville will be 9.
MiCKIE SAYS
4NOTHER DEPARTURE
NEAR.
DAY
Seventy Selected Men Will Leave
August 30 for General Military
Service.
Oil August 30th one of the largest
quotas of selected men yet to be sent
irom this district to any camp, will
leave Thompsonville. Under orders
issued at Hartford this week by Adj.
General George M. Cole, the local
board will furnish 70 men from
Class 1, qualified for general mili­tary
service. Connecticut's quota
for this call is 2,500 men, which will
use up all the general service men
left under the 1917 registration.
j.'WVKll SIS1TZKV FINALLY
ACCEPTED.
A KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COX-l^
VmSTKON IN NEW YORK
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New York, August 7.
They were strangers in New York,
which explains how they happeuec
to wander into Seventh avenue and
Forty-third street, when they, really
wanted to continue their wol".; c.&£h
Broadway. Mrs. E. Gil>ca;;.',' "ijn:
her grown daughter, Mistf iV'r.rv; r..
Ronceverte, W. Va., of coui :;.', uidii''.
know that Broadway at Foriy-tliiri
street was intersected by-' Seventh
Avenue, and that's how it happened.
Mother and daughter were not
watching street signs closely any­how,
because they were looking for
John J. Gilhooly, son and brother,
who, in a soldier's uniform, was
somewhere in the East. And being
in the East, he would, of course, be
in Broadway—at least it was very
natural that he should. At any rate,
his was the deduction of mother
nd daughter as they talked it over
n their little home on a farm near
Ronceverte, W. Va.
So they came to New York to !in l
John.
Up and down the streets they
walked yesterday afternoon peering
closely into the face of every soldier
they met—but John didn't appear.
In Seventh avenue last night they
met a policeman and i^sked him if
he had seen John.
"I'm sure that 1 didn't; tell me
bout him" lie replied.
They did, and the story revealed
that all they knew about John was
tnat he had been transferred from
a camp in the Southwest to "some
place on the East Atlantic coast"—
and they had come to New York to
find him. That's all.
"Well, mother, we'll find him for
you- if he is on the Atlantic coast—
or any other coast for that matter,"
was tile cop's answer.
John T. Cavanaugh, a Knights of
(Columbus Secretary passed just at
hat moment. 'And he was in uni-orm
too, or perhaps this story
would never have been written.
Then spoke the kindly cop, who
had pledged New York's word to the
anxious mother and her daughter
that' the man they sought would be
found. He addressed himself to
Cavanaugh:
"Maybe you can help this mother
find her son—a soldier?"
"1 can, and certainly will. The
Knights have a Lost Soldiers' De­partment
for just sucn cases."
A..taxicab quickly conveyed the
parly to the Ivuights of Columbus
headquarters at No. *61 Fourth ave­nue,
where Frank J. Maloney is in
charge of the Lost Soldiers' Depart­ment.
Through him, John was
quickly located at Camp Upton and
today at the Knights of Columbus
headquarters there John Gilhooly
Private, S. A. will meet his mother.
Mrs. E. J. Gilhooly and his sister
Mary of Ronceverte, W. Va.
The meeting was arranged over
the telephone last night and John
was at the Camp Upton end of the
wire.
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eorge Washington University,
iVashington, and a degree of master
f laws, Yale Law School, class of
lO kG. Lawyer Sisitzky has been en­gaged
in the practice of law for twe
years, having offices in Springfield
and this place.
Last Sunday evening Mrs. Joseph
Angelica- and daughters Lucy and
Lily of Tariff St., were injured when
they were run down by an autorao
bile owned and operated by. James
K. Kneeland of 09 Sergeant street
Spr'Tigfield, near Grape Bro.vc ]-]r-tie'ii
street. Mrs. Angelica received
a scalp wound which required 14
stitches to close and her two daugh­ters
received minor injuries consist­ing
of cuts and bruises about the
body.
Kneeland was given a hearing in
the local court. Monday morning, and
in order to enable more complete in­vestigation
and also to await .the
outcome of r'sj injuries sustained by
"5. Joseph An gel if aaiuid ai'-sl'-
ters, ;!;e case was continued n nil
Veonesday morning under §10 0
bonds.
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Marks to His Mother. Kf rj:
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D e a r M a : ' • •
Received your letter and also post :¥*••
card. Gee, it is good to hear from o''-,
home after waiting so long. By now ;
you must have a few of ray letters. "
Have been writing without waiting
for iu-siver, knowing Ilia; the mails frfe?
are very slow i oiag irom here. So Sr. -
you ma.' t ; y. ju d j the same. Write
at lear-. once a week, and if you
don't hear from me right away re­member
that the mail is delayed, for
I am writing regularly. -Ml
Well, Ma, I am sorry you were di^ -• a :
appointed in not being able to send . • ri..
me anything. At the time I wrote I v - fe - A
was broke and all out of tobacco, S
not knowing about not being allow-ed
to receive packages I wrote and fe#
asked you to send chocolate and to- f||
bacco; things J most needed. It is iV
O. K. now. I have everything in
that line and plenty. The commis- £
sary also issues three sacks
week per man. In fact, things are §1|§
improving rapidly and I think before
the war is over we will be able to
get almost anything we want. Don't f|f|
think Uncle ;Sam is too hard on us |!|||
by not allowing our relatives to send 'MH
things; ships are not so plentiful and
of course the few we have are pretty
well used up to carry the things that
are most essential. The Y. M. C. A.
is doing great work in keeping us
supplied with chocolate, tobacco, etc.
at very reasonable prices. So, Ma,
don't worry about sending anything.
Send The Press, and I would like a
post card view of Thompsonville oc­casionally.
We have some great entertain­ments
at the Y. M. C. A. most every
night, and movies. This , National
Army is made up of men from every
branch of life you can imagine, and
naturally a few actors are among the
rest. Life is a regular graft ove'.-
liere outside of a little training. We
are all fat and healthy. Of course, :
as usual, I have a very easy time of
it. Have been going to radio school
and may some day be a wireless op-erator.
It takes quite a bit of prac- §jf|'
tice but I guess I will get there. Ar- §||p r.^v
tillery is about as nice a branch of
service as a fellow could be in, and -7.'$
bis chances are very good of getting
back sound and healthy. I haven't S'S;
anything to do with the guns. On
Sundays we all have to groom and
water horses. We call it Sundav on :lf& i
the farm.
Gee, the Italians are sure handing :
it to-the Austrians and I think we
will see Austria make peace at any
terms this summer. Somehow I feci
the war will be over before the year
is past, and a whole lot of others
feel the same. Our soldiers at the
front are doing great work. At tiie
rate the U. S. is getting more over
we will soon be able to do the job
alone. Cheer up. Ma. 1 will be back
in the old town again inside of a
year just as good as ever.
Remember me to all my friends
and tell them 1 am getting fat and
lazy. I am also gaining a little hair
on my upper lip. Glad to Know the
allotment, has started coming. It .v^S ^
may be a little while before you hear
from the insurance. They are a
little slow on accouut of so many "
other tilings, but policy or not it is yfjE
good, just the same ''"xm*
I read about the U-boats off the ~?j|| j
U. S. coast. It is only a bluff on '
Germany's part, but don't go. We " ^v"3§i
are wise.
Well, Ma. I want you to tell me -"'-331
all about what is going on in the
family in your letters. How art you ;'.'^S
and Pa getting along alone. I sup-pose
it is lonesome without .Bill and
Florence. In summer jt hadn't ^
ought to be so bad. Has Bill's
brother Stewart come over yet?
Well, I can think of nothing
more just now, so give my love and
best wishes to the family. '
Love, from , -.i
' * Heib.
[SPEECH COST EMl'EY
HIS COMMISSION'
VUIL OOVNN fvA-L -*HE
SHADES, LOCK THE
DOOR PkN' OONft
AUSVNE* "THE PHONE
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\N\LL Q.UIT THEM
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EfVSN fO St MIX, BUf
•was appearing in a
new play, "Pack Up Your Troubles."
President Wilson was present.
The real heroes of the war, Empey
declared in effect, were the volun­teers
who went over in the first
place, and-not the drafted men who
are fighting now only because they
were compelled to do so. Empey
ended 'With a flourish, but the ex­pected
applause did not follow.
. While the commission had been
recommended, it had not beeu signed
and delivered, and three days later
came the announcement that there
had been a "mistake" in connection
with the granting of a captaincy to
the former sergeant.
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Corporal Raymond E. Blackburn,
who is stationed at Camp Upton, N.
Y., passed the week-end with his
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred L.
Blackburn.
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